Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, 9, + London, British Library, Cotton Nero E. i, vol. 1, vol. 2, fols 1-180, 187, 188

Present Location
Shelfmark

9, + London, British Library, Cotton Nero E. i, vol. 1, vol. 2, fols 1-180, 187, 188

Date
Medieval Provenance

General Information

Ker

29

Gnuess/Lapidge

36, 344, 344.5, 345

Summary

Glosses and directions to a reader in a mid-eleventh-century manuscript containing Latin lives and passions of saints.

Digital Surrogate:

https://parker.stanford.edu/parker/catalog/ty948rv7120

Manuscript Items

 

  1. Itempassim
    • Title (C.96): Glosses to Saints' Lives

      Text Language: English and Latin

      Note: Old English and Latin glosses are in the same hand, s. ximed.

      Bibliography:

      Ker 1957

  2. Itempassim
    • Title (B.27.2.2): Directions to a reader

      Text Language: English

      Note: in brown ink, s. xi2.

      Bibliography:

      Ker 1957


Object Description

Form

Form Codex


Hand Description


Additional Information

Administration Information

Described by Takako Kato, with reference to published scholarship (2013).

Surrogates

Digital surrogate: https://parker.stanford.edu/parker/catalog/ty948rv7120 (accessed 18 July 2018)


History

Provenance

Worcester

Bibliography

Jackson, Peter and Michael Lapidge, 'The contents of the Cotton-Corpus Legendary', in Holy Men and Holy Women: Old English Prose Saints' Lives and Their Contexts, ed. Paul E. Szarmach (Albany, NY: State University of New York Press, 1996), pp. 131-46

Ker, N. R., Catalogue of Manuscripts Containing Anglo-Saxon (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1957; repr. 1990), item 29

Lapidge, Michael, 'Editing hagiography', in La critica del testo mediolatino. Atti del convegno (Firenze, 6-8 dicembre 1990), ed. Claudio Leonardi (Spoleto: Centro Italiano di Studi sull'Alto Medioevo, 1994), pp. 239-58